Nearly all of the most sympathetic figures in The Gallery share one trait: they sound like Burns. “I annihilated my own personality completely in producing it,” Burns told Holger Hagen. That’s not right. In fact, he cloned it. The Gallery is a gallery of Burns doppelgängers who, though varying in rank, appearance, erudition, nationality, religion, and even sex, are all empathetic, alluring, aloof, and wise.
